Just Another Dang Blog

After a long hiatus on developing on WordPress, I’m back. Finally, I have a fresh new look for the website with a new theme built from scratch. I’ve spent about roughly 30 hours building this theme. Relearning some basic and core CSS3, HTML5, and WordPress. I’ll be posting a video soon on how to build a responsive theme from scratch.

I intend to release this theme for free. It is in its early stage that has flaws but good enough to get it out there.

Want to create a simple component that any user with System Admin rights can quickly change the text attributes. This component is so easy to create and I’m sharing the process on how to create on here. This component is for non-classic Community template.

Step 1: Launch the Developer Console

Step 2: Create a Lightning Bundle and give it a name

Step 3: Edit the component and specify implements and create the attributes you want, then build the HTML.

Step 4: Create a design file where you specify the design attributes from the component.

Earlier last month I finally started a new Youtube Channel, it was an idea to start a tutorial course for topics I am most passionate about and doing at the moment. I was already doing this by blogging but found that doing video is soo much fun. I have started some PHP HowTos, Salesforce Communities HowTos and some Mac HowTos. I’ll probably match a video tutorial and a blog post in the future. Plan to grow channel with more HowTos as I further develop my skills in Javascript(nodejs, reactjs), mobile development(IOS and Android). Though still in it’s first month I have some decent views and have a very supportive comments from viewers.

So decided to sit down the Community Cloud certification as my own prerequisite goal before jumping into the Domain Architect exams. The Community Cloud certification was launched last year so very relatively new. It’s a 90 minute allocated exam with 60 questions. A bit lower at 57% passing score compared to the other Salesforce certification exams I took previously.

The questions are very scenario based and having experience setting up one or two from previous projects helps. Here are my take-aways from the Community Cloud exam. Get familiar with the Community Cloud Certification Guide, make sure you have a good understanding of this 4 core categories – Implementation, Sharing and Security, Community Setup and the Community Builder.

With this 3 simple steps you can quickly do to increase your site performance. Then you can go further and implement more methods like shop around for a better host, remove unnecessary plugins, start using CDNs where you host your images and javascript libraries or install a caching plugin like W3 Total Cache.